Barrel-washing tank.



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No. 734,281. PATENTED JULY 21, 1903. H. OLSEN.

BARREL WASHING TANK.

APPLIQATIOK FILED NOV. 10, 1902.

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UNITED STATES I I Patented July 21, 1903. PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY OLSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO OLSEN & TILGNERMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BARREL-WASHING TANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 734,281, dated July21, 1903.

Application filed November 10,1902. Qerial No. 130,803. \No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY OLSEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin Barrel-\Vashin g Tanks,of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to improve the construction andoperation of the track way on which the barrels descend in their passagefrom the receiving end of the tank to the delivery end thereof; to causethe act of raising and lowering the delivery end of the trackway torecede and advance the delivery end coincidingly; to raise and lower andrecede and advance the delivery end of the trackway to accommodatebarrels, half-ban rels, or kegs and bring the differentsized articles inproper relation to the arms or lifters by which the barrel, half-barrel,keg, or other receptacle is raised and discharged; to improve theconnection between the tank and the scrubbing-machine; to automaticallyrelease a barrel on the trackway at the delivery 2 5 end thereof withthe placing of a barrel on the receiving end, and to improve generallythe construction and operation of the devices cooperating with the tankas a whole.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinationsof parts here.-

inafter described and claimed. In the drawings illustrating theinvention, Figure 1 is a top or plan view showing the tank in connectionwith a scrubbing-machine 5 Fi 2, a side elevation of the tank in con-fnection with a scrubbing-machine, the scrubbing-machine in Figs. 1 and 2not being shown in full detail; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectionalelevation of the tank, and Fig. 4 a detail showing the hand-wheel andratchet and pawl for operating the trackway. .The tank A can be made ofwood or other suitable material and of any length desiredand of a widthto accommodate a barrel lengthwise across the tank, and when completedthe tank has a bottom a, sides a, and end a and an enda and, as shown,at each end tie-rodska assist in holding the sides to the ends, and thetank rests upon chairs or other suitable supports a in the constructionshown; a trackway B, consisting of two side rails I), each side rail atthe delivery end of the trackway having an upward turn forming a stop orrest against which a barrel will lie in position to be caught and raisedby the arms or lifters. Each side bar of the trackway rearwardly fromthe delivery end thereof swings on a link 13 one end of the'linkpivotally attached to the side bar and the other end pivotally attachedto the floor or bottom of the tank, so that the trackway at its deliveryend can rise and fall and can be receded and advanced as a whole throughthe swinging support furnished by the links. Each side bar I) of thetrackway has depending therefrom guide-plates 12 which coact with guidesb on the floor or bottom of the tank to give the trackway astraight-line movement in rising and falling and in advancing andreceding. Aplate C is located between the side rails of the trackway atthe receiving end, and this plate on its under face has a rack c, whichis engaged by a pinion c on a shaft C, so that by turning the shaft thepinion will act on the gear and move the trackway bodily forward andbackward, the forward movement, through the swinging links 11 loweringthe delivery end of the trackway coincidingly with the advance and thebackward move- "ment, through the links b raising the delivery end ofthe trackway coincidingly, thus producing both a rising and falling anda receding and advancing of the delivery end of 'the tracluvay throughthe action of the rack and pinion. The shaft C has on one end thereofahand-wheel C by which the shaft can be turned, and the hub of thehand-wheel or the shaft adjacent to the hand-wheel has thereon aratchet-wheel 0 which is engaged by a catch or pawl c on a lever C forholding the shaft against return movement when the trackway is receded.The receiving end of the trackway is entered bet-ween guides Z2 in theconstruction shown, so as to maintain a direct-line movement, inadvancing 95 and receding the trackway,'.and, as shown, the guides I)also serveasan intermediate support for the shaft C,"'the inner end ofwhich is supported in a box 0 on the side of the tank.

The interior of the tank, on each side thereof, has a guide-piece D,each guide-piece fixedly attached at the receiving end of the tank tothe side wall of the tank, and at the receiving end of the tank theguides D are located a sufiicient distance apart to furnish a space ofthe required width for the longest receptacle to be treated in the tank.The guides D at the delivery end of the traekway are movable inwardlyand outwardly laterally, so that the free ends of the guides can beadjusted nearer to or farther from the sides of the traekway to furnisha space varying in width to accommodate receptacles of different lengthsand have the receptacles properly guided at the delivery end of thetraekway to lie sufficiently across the traekway to be caught at eachend by the arms or lifters which raise the receptacle from the traekwayat the delivery end. As shown, the free end of each guide I) is movedinward and outward by a bar (I, passing through a clip (1 on the top ofeach side wall of the tank, allowing. of the required lateral movementof the free ends of the guides to suit the requirements as to the properwidth for the length of different receptacles. This lateral adjustmentof the free ends of the side guides insures the passage of receptaclesof different lengths in proper position to be raised.

The arms or lifters E, two of which are employed, are each curved orbent so as to receive on their upper faces the barrel, halfbarrel, orother receptacle to be raised and discharged from the tank. The arms orlifters are fixedly attached to a revolving shaft E, supported insuitable journal-boxes e on the sides of the tank, and one end of theshaft has thereon a gear-wheel e, which meshes with a worm-gear e on ashaft E which shaft is supported in suitable bearings on a plate E,attached to the side of the tank. The shaft E at one end thereof, hasfixed thereto a bevel-gear e which meshes with a bevel-gear e on a shaftE, which shaft is supported in suitable bearings 6 one of which is onthe side of the tank and the other one of which is on an arm of theplate extending out from the plate E, and on the shaft E is asprocket-wheel e, driven by a chain E, which chain in the arrangementshown is driven from one of the shafts for the wheels which support thebarrel in the scrubbingmachine. The rotation of the worm-gear e from thebevel-gears e and e revolves the shaft E through the gear 6, and withthe revolving of the shaft the arms or lifters E are carried around,passing in their circle of travel, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig.3, below the first barrel at the delivery end of the traekway, and thecontinued revolution of the arms raises the caught barrel and carriesthe barrel or other receptacle around until the vertical position of thearms or lifters allows the barrel to roll from the arms orlifters and bedischarged from the tank to pass to a scrubbing-machine or other placeof reception. The barrels, half-barrels, or other receptacles raised anddischarged successively by the arms or lifters fall or roll onto aplatform or table F, consisting, as shown, of two side rails f, having adownward inclination from a point adjacent to the base end of the armsor lift-ers, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The outerend of the platformor table F is supported on a standard F, adjacent to and in front of thewheels which receive the barrel in the scrubbingnnachinc, so that thebarrels descending on the platform or table will roll therefrom, and, asshown, the platform or table is connected with the end bar a by abrackct-armf, the face of which abuts against the inner face of the enda", as shown in Fig The barrels descending on the table or platform passdirectly in the arrangement shown onto the supporting-wheels G of thescrubbing-machine, and, as shown, a trip-arm g, as a barrel rolls downthe platform or table, is actuated to move the scrubbing-brushes for thebarrel to enter between the brushes. The barrels, half-barrels, or otherreceptacles H are placed on the receiving end of the trackway B androllby gravity down the traekway. An arm 7L, located rearwardly of thestop or rest 0 at a sufficient distanee to allow of a space between thearm and the stop or-rest for the reception of a barrel, serves to holdthe barrels against crowding onto the first barrel which is to be raisedby the action of the arms or lifters, and this stop-arm h is 0011-nected by a rod h with an arm 71*, projecting above the face of thetraekway and located at the receiving end of the traekway, against whicharm 71- a barrel or other receptacle placed on the receiving end of thetraekway will contact, forcing the arm 7L2 forwardly at its upper endand rearwardly at its lower end, giving a corresponding movement to thearm h, lowering the upper end of such arm sufficiently for the barrelcaught thereagainst to pass thereover into the space therefor adjacentto the stop or rest at the delivery end of the traekway, and with thepassage of a barrel over the stop-arm h the arms 7L and 7&2 return tonormal position for the arm h to stop the next succeeding barrel andhold the row of barrels so that the barrel which has passed the arm andis in position for the arms or lifters E to raise the same will be clearof any binding from the row of barrels, thus facilitating the action ofthe arms or lifters in raising and discharging the barrels.

The operation is as follows: The traekway is adjusted through the rackand pinion for its delivery end to be in correct relation with the armsor lifters E to suit the size of the receptacle passing through thetank. The receptacles-either barrels, half-barrels, kegs, or otherreceptaclesare entered one by one on the receiving end of the traekwayand roll down the traekway and in their passage are soaked or wetted bythe water in the tank, and with the bungs out more or less water IIOwill enter the interior of the receptacle. The first receptacle receivedat the delivery end of the trackway is caught by the arms or lifters andraised from the trackway and above the tank and is discharged onto thetable or platform from the arms or lifters and descends to thescrubbing-machine or other place of delivery. The next barrel orreceptacle received at the delivery end of the trackway is likewisecaught by the arms or lifters, raised, and discharged, and so on untilthe number of receptacles to be operated upon have been passed throughthe tank. The barrels, after the trackway is once filled, are held so asto pass to the delivery end and into position for the action of the armsor litters by the stop-arm h, and with the placing of another barrel onthe receiving end of the trackway the barrel or other receptacle caughtby the stop-arm h is automatically released and descends into liftingposition by the placed-on barrel through the contact of such barrel withthe trip-arm h which releasesthe stop-arm h and allows the barrel orreceptacle adjacent to the stop arm to descend, and after the release ofa barrel or receptacle from the stop-arm the stop-arm and trip-armreturn to normal position and so remain until the next barrel orreceptacle is placed on the receiving end of the trackway, and when allthe barrels have been placed on the trackway which it is desired to passthrough the tank each barrel on the trackway can be successively passedto the delivery end of the trackway by the operator or workman whoreleases the stop-arm by moving the trip-arm.

It will be seen that the trackway is adj ustable as to height anddistance from the path of circular travel of the arms or lifters E toaccommodate different-sized receptacles, and this adjustment as toheight and distance is attained by one and the same movement of v thetrackway as a wholethat is, the advance of the trackway lowers thedelivery end thereof and the recession of the trackway raises thedelivery end, it being understood that the lowermost and the advancedposition places the delivery end of the trackway in position for thearms or lifters to act on barrels, and the uppermost and recededposition places the delivery end of the trackway in position for smallreceptacles, and the inter:

mediate positions place the delivery end of the trackway in position forreceptacles between barrels and the smallest receptacle to be acted on.end of the trackway both as to height and distance enables the arms orlifters to act on the largest and smallest receptacles without liabilityof the ends of the arms or lifters passing a distance beyond the firstreceptacle so as to engage the second receptacle and raise or partlyraise the second-receptacle and creating confusion in the position andrun of the receptacles; and by providing the stop-arm, located at asufficient distance back of the delivery end of the trackway for theThis adjusting of the delivery.

largest receptacle, each arm holds the-receptacles back so that only onereceptacle at a time can come into position to be caught and forth, andmeans for advancing and receding the trackway endwise bodily, theendwise backward movement operating to raise the delivery end and theendwise forward movement operating to lower the delivery end of thetrackway, substantially as described.

2. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an endwise-movableinclined trackway with the receiving end in a higher plane than itsdelivery end, swinging links pivotally connecting the forward end of thetrackway with the bottom of the tank, a support for the receiving end ofthe trackway on and by which the trackway can be traveled back andforth, and means for advancing and receding the trackway endwise bodily,the endwise backward movement operating to raise the delivery end andthe endwise forward movement operating to lower the delivery end of thetrackway through the rising and falling movements of thepivotally-connecting links derived by the backward and forward movementsof the trackway, substantially as described.

3. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an endwise movableinclined trackway, swinging links pivotally connecting the delivery endof the trackway with the bot- 'tom of the tank, a rack at the receivingend of the trackway, and a pinion having a fixed relation and engagingthe rack, the rack and the pinion furnishing a support on and by whichthe trackway can be advanced and receded endwise bodily for the swinginglinks to lower and raise the delivery end of the trackway, substantiallyas described.

4. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an endwise-movabletrackway, means for giving endwise movements forward and backward to thetrackway and have the forward movement lower and the backward movementraise the delivery end of the trackway, revoluble lifters at thedelivery end of the trackway operating to raise a receptacle from thetrackway at the delivery end thereof, and means for revolving thelifters, substantially as described.

5. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an endwise movableinclined trackway, means for giving endwise movements forward andbackward to the trackway and have the forward movement lower and thebackward movement raise the delivery end of the trackway, revolublelifters at the delivery end of the trackway operating to raise areceptacle from the trackway at the delivery end thereof, means forrevolving the V livery end of the trackway operating to raise areceptacle from the traekway at the (lelivery end thereof, means forrevolving the lifters, a platform at the delivery end of the tank ontoWhich receptacles are deposited from the lifters, and ascrubbing-machine into which the receptacles pass from the platform,substantially as described.

7. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an inclined trackway, aretainer-arm projecting above the upper face of the trackway and locatedrearwardly of the delivery end of the trackway, a triparm at thereceiving end of the trackway, and a connection between the retainer-armand the trip-arm for operating the retainer-arm to release a receptaclewith the deposit of a receptacle on the receiving end of the traekway,substantially as described.

8. In a barrel-washing tank, the combination of an inclined trackway, aretainer-arm projecting above the upper face of the track- Way andlocated rearwardly of the delivery end of the trackway, and means forlowering and raising the retainer-arm to release the advance receptacleand hold back the remaining receptacles on the trackway, substantiallyas described.

HENRY oLsEN.

\Vitnesses:

THOMAS A. BANNING, OSCAR W. BOND.

